Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A refrigerator.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To move rapidly; frisk or dance about.
- To rub; fray.
Wiktionary
- v. archaic To rub, chafe.
- n. A refrigerator.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To rub; to fray.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor
Etymologies
- Abbreviation of refrigerator (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But the fridge is an easy place to start. saintseminole”
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“A whole cheesecake in the fridge is a dangerous thing.”
“On the fridge is a piece of paper with the meals we decided in advance we'd like to make in the right-hand column, with the shopping list for those meals on the left-hand side.”
“Of course, my fridge is an analogy for the rest of my life.”
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Sustainability.
“Near the top of every economic cycle I reach into what I call my fridge and medicine chest stocks, all of which have been thrown away because no one wants dowdy old Procter or General Mills or Colgate when things are booming.”
“Transfer to a bowl, cover with parchment, and let cool in fridge, at least 1 1/2 hours.”
“I'm completely guilty of the "European" method of shopping - I'm perfectly content to run out for bits and pieces of the evening meal each day, picking up produce that's fresh and bright (provided I'm lucky enough to be there shortly after stocking) and arriving home only to find that there was an extra whatever lurking in the fridge from the big shopping the weekend before.”
“Not unless your fridge is being powered by the mold that's growing on the food you let go south ...”
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“You'll find out that even your old fridge is not that bad.”
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“Just as any movie with Indiana Jones escaping atomic annihilation in a fridge is inherently awesome?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fridge’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Choppers
Words that have been cut down from their original glory, ie. apocopes, but are still 'understandable' in the chopped form. eg. doc for doctor. Most of them are horribilisms, I know :-( Let's keep t...
doc, rep, van, bus, fridge, pub, flu, hon, santa, diff, blog, exam and 49 more...
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Words I Dislike
proactive, semblance, tasty, belly, burger, adore, sebum, grits, morsel, fridge
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fridge.
dharma66 dang, the recipe is in metric :( Aug 23, 2011
dharma66 great. I followed that link to a food blog and now I'm craving doughnuts!! Aug 23, 2011
ruzuzu mature goat cheese Aug 23, 2011
dharma66 Is that cheese done maturing? How about the wine? I bet the goats are. Aug 23, 2011
fbharjo chile-cheese rice casserole Aug 8, 2011
dharma66 chilled wine Aug 8, 2011
ruzuzu the other goat Aug 8, 2011
ruzuzu blueberries Aug 8, 2011
blafferty goat Aug 8, 2011
blafferty cheese Aug 7, 2011